noun
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A heavy stepping.
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The sound of heavy footsteps.
verb
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To crush something by walking on it.
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to trample grass or flowers
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(by extension) To treat someone harshly.
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To walk heavily and destructively.
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(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
Examples of trample in a Sentence
If you're on horseback, you can make your horse slide and trample bad guys.
Nerva saw that if he could not find an Augustus to control the army, the army would find another Domitian to trample the senate under foot.
Unlike policemen, archeologists do n't trample all over the data, either.
Secondly, if people do keep to it they will trample the vegetation and start the process of path formation.
Handing over the command to Soult, he hurried back to Paris to trample on the seeds of sedition and to overwhelm Austria by the blows which he showered upon her in the valley of the Danube.
His revolt against Christian faith and morals turns him into a proudly atheistic "free-thinker," and preacher of a new "master" morality, which transposes the current valuations, deposes the "Christian virtues," and incites the "over-man" ruthlessly to trample under foot the servile herd of the weak, degenerate and poor in spirit.
His ambition has led to him to trample over the careers of several other officers to achieve his aims.
The policy of repression which in this capacity he pursued during the next five years secured for him many tangible rewards, in 1560 he was elevated to the archiepiscopal see of Malines, and in 1561 he received the cardinal's hat; but the growing hostility of a people whose religious convictions he had set himself to trample under foot ultimately made it impossible for him to continue in the Low Countries; and by the advice of his royal master he, in March 1564, retired to FrancheComte.
It had been the policy of the great Mahratta chiefs, Holkar and Sindhia, to trample down into complete subjection all the petty Rajput princes, whose lands they seized and from whom they levied heavy contributions of money.
Civil Liberties watchdog groups immediately took a stand against the bill, making it very clear that attempts to censor the internet of any sort of speech would trample over every citizen's basic right to nonviolent dissent.
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs.